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BROWN: “Well, it’s bigger because the fire season instead of being a few months around the summer and a little bit in the fall is year long and we saw that with the fires both in the north and the southern part of the state at the same time. That hasn’t happened before. Usually one would burn and then it would stop and then the southern part of the state would burn with the Santa Ana winds. So it’s new, and it leads not just to fires. It leads to mud slides and then, of course, you see with the heavy storms and rain as the snows melt faster or they don’t come at all, we will find a lot of inundation of a good part of the state. So we see it. We see it in the fear in people’s eyes as they fled. The elderly who died. This is real, it’s dangerous and we’ve got to wake up the country and the world and we have the White House that requires raking leaves in the bottom of the forest there.”